I love chocolate, however due to my gut sensitivity, I can't consume chocolate with any form of dairy in it. This means DARK chocolate for me. YUM! I eat 88-95% dark chocolate as a snack. I also make my smoothies with cacao powder in them, which is bitter by itself...

Chocolate. This is a food we often love to eat. Most of the time it is consumed as Dark chocolate or milk chocolate. In most cases the kind that is consumed is accompanied with sugar. This is where it becomes questionable for our heatlh. The more sugar added and the...

When it comes to celebrating our family doesn't usually over indulge. My kids, 5 years old, have picked up on my coaching my clients on choosing better options than refined sugar treats. I was proud to hear that my daughter wanted to make something that was relatively...

Quinoa is an amazing seed that is used as a grain and has so much versatility and benefits to eating it. Here are just a few listed by Forbes. It's rich in protein and contains all nine amino acids. Contains almost twice as much fiber as other grains. Contains iron-...

I am completely into my new superfood. If anyone likes chocolate you need to give Cacao a try. I usually put it into my smoothies and as a topping, but I chose to make a "nice" cream with it. A little information about Cacao. No, I don't mean cocoa. Don't get them...

It is always fun when the kids want to get in the kitchen and make a dish on their mind. If you search fruit compote, you will find all kinds of recipes. We were wanting to make something that was not loaded down with the added sugar compote usually contains. So, this...

As I was sitting at the supper table with my family, we were talking about desserts, and how we don't usually eat them very much. Olivia, shouted out, "well, if I made a dessert, I would make a "sweet meatball on ice cream and strawberries." I thought this was a...

In the many years of being vegan, I found one of the easiest places to start was the desserts. Such yummy, sweet goodness, warm or cold in the mouth with satisfaction at the tip of your taste buds. Oh, I guess I am describing my roasted peach dessert. I was...

Here in Northwest Arkansas it gets really hot. One day it was a heat index of 105 degrees. Not fun when the air goes out and you do everything you can to stay cool. During this time, I have also gone off all processed sugar (sugar detox) and try to use food items from...

I love avocados. They have a distinct creamy taste and full of all the good kind of fat your body needs. I decided to to try a chocolate pudding. I have had avocado in ice cream so I figured it would be similar in the pudding. I found an avocado chocolate pudding...